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July 19, 2005

What was Edith Clement like as a sentencing judge?.... update: "nevermind"

The blogsphere is predicting that the President will tonight name Edith Clement as his nominee for the Supreme Court to replace Justice O'Connor (consider posts over at SCONo and Volokh and UTR). Of course, the same blogsphere predicted that Chief Justice Rehnquist was retiring earlier this month, so I plan to have the television on when President Bush make his announcement at 9pm this evening.

I suspect some of my readers might have had direct experience with Clement as a district judge, and I am of course especially interested in her record as a sentencing judge. I hope readers will use the comments to share any experiences or insights they have about Judge Clement.

UPDATE:Redstate.org is saying now that "staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee have begun steering people away from Edith Brown Clement." Such crazy fun.

FURTHER UPDATE: Perhaps it is a little early to say "nevermind," but now ABC news is reporting Judge Clement is not the nominee. Tom Goldstein at SCONo is now off the Clement bandwagon. Redstate.org is talking about John Roberts here and now I am really stoked for 9pm.